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THREE DOLLARS A EA1R] FOR THE DISSEMINITION OF USEFUL INTELLIGENCE. [INVARIABLY IN ADVAYCE.
OL. III. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 6,1867. NO. 10
THE HERALD
Is PUBLISHED
EVERY WEDNESDAY MOINING,
At Newberry C. I.,
By THOS. F. & R. H. GRENEKER,
1ItRS, $3 PER ANNUM, IN CUIIENCY
OR PROVISIONS.
Payment required invariably in advance.
X fiage notices, Funeral Invitationa, Obitu
'asies, and Communications subserving pr'vate
Ia'njst, are charged as advertisements.
Miscellaneous.
W.B. McKellar,
SURGEON DENTIST,
Would most respectfully
state to the public that he has moved in his
new rooms over Captain McFall's store, on
.Main street, and can at all times be found
ready to do any and everything in his line
for cash.
Mr. Edwin Jones will work at one-fourth
-priee.
At the same time I would say to all who
are indebted to me, that they would find it
Tery much to their interest to call and settle
'soon or they will be sued. Feb 13 tf
-A CARD.
URGED, by the many ~changes which
distress the community-among whiclh is
the fact that we have to pay cash for every
thing purchased-we are compelled to
publish the following terms and conditions
upon which we propose to practice medicine,
iz:
For visit and prescription - - - $2,00
prescription at office or in
tatreet,---- --- -----1,00
"tirica cases (simple) - - 20,00
" consultation - - - - - - - - - 1U,00
4 imiage-per mile (day) - - 50
" " " " (night) - 1,00
rOtrs;are.CASH. The above stated
reaa, alone,'forces as to insist upon this.
It is our intention to present bills, at the
termination -of every case, for services
rendered;-and no visits nor attention can
be expected from us afterwards, until the
amount ofsuch bills is paid.
P. . RUFF
0. B. MAYER
JAMES McINTOSTI
G. W. GARMANY.
Dec. '12th, 18S63.
WM. F. ANCE
?olonBkerBanikin. and
COMMISSION AGENT,
lewberry, S- 0-,
(O1,IN REAR OF GRIERSON'S DRUG STORE
Advances on Cotton to reliable houses in
Charteston; S. C., New York and Liverpool.
Exchange'on'Charleston and New York
in su.ls a.s wanted.
WANTED.
Tor EKGLISHI ACCOUNT EXCLUSIVELY
WOO L,
Or Unshorn Sheep Skins.
Market~ prices paid in ctsh, ov' Cloth ex
-changed.
WM!. F. NANGE.
Office is rear Grierson's Drug Store, New
berry, S. C.
dec 12 6m
EiLchlange
On CharlestonA? PAR, in sums as wanted.
Checks
-On Se4tork in sums of $100 and1 upwards,
--.:rewiitted promptly to order.
Libt1 . Advances
Miade on ~Cotton and other produ ce con
* igned to reliable houses in
Charleston, S. C.,
New York, and
Liverpool.
Plantation Supplies
On liberal terms.
WVM. F. NAXCE,
NovemnberQ 28 f Agent.
LEWIS BUTLER,
FASHIIONABLE BARBER and
HAIR DRESSER,
RESPECTFULLY announces to the gen
tdemen-of Ne wberry, that lie has opened at
the old shop, opposite the Court House,
and next to Messrs: I. M. Saber & Co.,
-where-he will be happy to wait upon all in
the extreise of his profession. His object
is to UIl.ase the .most fastidious taste, and
the keeping of his shop shall be after the
most unezeeptionable style.
Sharing, Trimming, Shamnpooing, and
Hairdying executted in the most approved
manner.
Jan. 23-4-tf.
S. R. CHAPMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
NVEWBERYC.H., . C.
Will attend to business entrusted to his care.
[C7Office at Bookstore. Feb. 6
C. H. KINGSMORE
Is still at the old stand,
. Prepared to Take
Ambrotypes & Photographs,
And Paint
Gatbinet & Life size Portraits,
From Life or any kind of Picture. He will
visit the country or a neighboring town to
paint Portraits. A cloudy daiy as good as
any. .T~f an 1
MISCELLANEOUS.
The New Reconstruction Bill.
WIherea, No legal State Gov
ernluot or adequate protection
for life or property now exist in
the rebel States of Virginia, North
Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia.
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Florida. Texas and Arkansas; and
whereas it is necessary that peace
and good order should be enforced
in said States until loyal and Re
publican State Governments can I
be legally established; therefore,
Be it enacted, &c., That said rebel
State shall be divided into military
districts, and made subject to the
military authority of the United
States, as hereinafter prescribed,
and for that purpose, Virginia shall
constitute the first district; North
Carolina and South Carolina the
second district ; Georgia. Alabama
and Florida the third district ; Mis
sissippi and Arkansas the fourth
district, and Louisiana and Texas
the fifth district.
SFc. 2. That it shall be the duty
of the President to assign to the
command of each of said districts
an officer of the army not below
the rank of Brigadier-General, and
to detail a sufficient military force
to enable such officer to perform
his duties and enforce his authori
tv within the district to which he
is assigned.
SEc. 3. That it shall be the du
ty of each officer assigned as afore
said to protect all persons in their
rights of person and property, to
suppress insurrection, disorder and
violence, and to punish or cause to
he punished all disturbers of the
public peace, and criminals ; and
to this end he may allow local civil
tribunals to take jurisdiction of
and try offenders, or when in his
judgment it may be necessary for
the trial of offenders, he shall have
power to organize military com
missions or tribunals for that
purpose, and all interference, un
der color of State authority, under
this Act, shall be null andl void.
Sze. 4. That all persons put un
:ler military arrest by virtue of
this Act shall be tried without un
necssary~ deClay, and no0 cruel or
unusual p)unishmecnt shall be in
flicted, anid no sentence of any
military commission or tribun al
ereby authorized, .affecting the
life or liberty of anyv person, shall
be executed until it is approved
by the officer in command of the
istrict ;and the laws and regula
tions for the government of the
army shall not be affected by this
Act, except in so far as they may
conflict with its provisions.
SEc. 5. That when tihe people
of any of said rebel States shall
have formed a constitution of gov
ernent in conformity with the
Constitution of the United States,
in all respects, framed by a conven
tion of delegates elected by the
mae citizens of sail State, t werty
one year's old alnd upwards, of
whatever race. color or previous
condition who have beint resident1
in said State for one year previous
to the day of such election, except
such as may be disfranchised for
participation in the rebellion or
for felony at cemmon law ; and
when s;uch constitution shall pro
vide that the elective franchise
shall be enjoyed by all such per
sons as have the qualification
herein stated for election of dele
gates; and when such constitu
tion shall be ratified by a majority
of the persons voting on the ques
tion of ratification who are quali
fed as electors for delegates, and
when such constitution shall have
been submitted to Congress for
examination ;ud approval, and
Congress shall have approved the
same ; and when said State, by a
vote of its Legislature elected
under said constitution, shall have
adopted the amendlmenlt to the
Constitution of the United States
proposed by the Thirty-ninth Con
gress. and known as Article 14,
and when said article shall have
i.- o a-ar ofrt1. Consitution
of the United States. said State
shall be declared eititlcd to repre
sentation in Congress, and Seiia
tors and Representatives shall be
adhnitted therefrom on their tak
ing the oath prescr"ibed by law,
and thn.' and thereafter the pre
ceding sections of this Act shall
be inoperative in said State.
Then follows Wilson's amend
ment to this section: "Provided
that no person excluded from the
privilege of holding office by said
proposed amendment to the Con
stitution of the United States shall
be eligible to election as a member
of the convention to frame a con
stitution for any of said rebel
States. nor shall any such persons
vote for members of such conven
tion."
Mr. Shellabarger's amendment
makes section 6: "That until the
people of' the said rebel States
shall by law be admitted to repre
sentation to Congress of' the
United States, any civil govern
ment that may exist therein shall
be deemed provisional only., and
shall be in all respects subject to
the paramount authority of the
United States, at any time to
abolish, modify, control, and super
sede the same; and in all elections
to any office under such provision
al governments all persons shall
be entitled to vote, and none
others who are entitled to vote
under the provisions of the fifth
section of this Act. And no per
son shall be eligible to any office
under such provisional govern
mcnt who would be disqualified
from holding office under the pro
visions of the third article of said
Constitutional Amendment."
General Upsetting of Titles in
the South.
The view we took yesterday,
that the Shellebarger amendment
to the District bill endangered all
titles made in the South since the
advent of the rebellion, is endorsed
by the New York Journal ofCom
merce, as follows :
Much as we desire to sec once
more the harmony of the executive
and legislative departments of the
Government, and injurious as their
disagreement is to the business
interests of the country, we cannot
believe it to be the duty of the
President to give his sanction to
this bill. If it must assume the
form of law, let it stand before
the country as the law of Congress
wit hout the approval of' t he Execu
tive department. It seems to us
impossible that it should ever re
ceive the sanction of the judiciary.
For the p)resent we shall do
little more than make a few com
ments upon the preamble to this
bill. The preamble is in these
words:
Whereas no legal State govern
ments or adequate protection for
hfe or property now exists in the
reb)el States of Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Florida, Texas, antd Arkansas ; and
whereas it is necessary that peace
and grood order should be enforced
in said States until loyal and re
publican State governments can be
legally established: therefore.
1. "30o legal State governments
exists in the rebel States of Vir
ginia' &c. If there be no legal
State governments, then every
thing done in the legislatures or
courts, or in any other depart
ments of these governments, are
void. The judgments obtained in
their courts are void ; the criminals
confined in their prisons, by sen
ten ce pronounced in the State
r-ourts, are entitled to immediate
isharge. There must be a gen
eral jail delivery. These are the
necessary consequences of illegal
State gortern men ts.
An editor describing a lecture
to the fair sex, exclaimed, with
enthusiasm, "three thousand Ia
dies hanging on the lips of a sin
Our Duty.
We would have been gratified if
we of the South could have ig
nored polities altogether; but that
was, and is, an ilmpossibility. We
could not, and cannot avoid tak
inng an interest in political atairs
which concern us so closely as do
those of the United States. Our
fate is in the hands of the North
ern people ; and whatever they do
in regard to the South or to the
Union, must effect that fate for
good or for evil. Hence, while
our people very wisely abstained
from all interference or active par-;
ticipation in political affairs, could
not shut their eyes to events that
were transpiring around them;
and neither could the press of the
South observe silence on the sub
ject. It is its duty to keep the
people posted in regard to every
thing that concerns them, and in
the performance of this duty, it
became necessary not only to state
what was going on, but to endcav
or, by cairn and considerate argu
mlent, to endeavor to soften the as
piration of the hour, and turn aside
the wrath of our enemies. This
duty, the press of the South, with
but few exceptions, has fully and
fearlessly performed ; and because
it has failed to accomplish any
thing of good, it does not neces
sarily follow that it has erred.
Now, however, a change has ta
ken place; and we can no longer
do good in the discussion of poli
tics. A fate more severe than
that of Ireland, or Poland, or Hun
gary, seems to await us; and we
can only fold our arms in partial
resignation, awaiting that time
when ajust Providence will lead
us out of the land of bondage to
peace and security. Avoiding
everything that can exasperate
our rulers, yielding a prompt obe
dience to military ordei's and reg
ulations, and devoting ourselves as
far as possible to the development
of our resources, we may lessen to
some extent the weight of the
burt hen which has been imposed
upon us. For we must remember
that it'is not alone men who have
to suffer, but innocent women and
children; and, for their sakes, we
must make our condition as easy
as possible. Perhaps something~
may soon arise to relieve us of the
burthen, arid restore the Union.
as it ought to be. Let us be pru
dent, patient and hopeful.
* [Au gusta Press.
No LITIGATION.-In these days
of excessive litigation it is re
freshing to learn that there is at
least one community where there
is compJaratively little suing. We
learn from a friend that this is the
case at Anderson. There have
been only about one hundred and
thirty cases entered there thus
far, and apparently there is little
disposition to enter more. The
Sheriff and Clerk are represented
as lounging in front of the Court
House, and the lawyers as sitting
in their offices enjoying their oti
um cum dignitate. All honor to
Anderson ! her people have shown
themselves worthy of all commen
datio.-Greenville .Mountaineer.
PAPER PANTALETTs.-Amongthe
new devices of the day are paper
panteletts for ladies. A company
has been organized at Mechanics
Falls, Me., to manufacture borders
to ladies' drawers and children's
pantaletts-an ornamental appur
tenance to be buttoned to the gar
ment which may be readily re
placed when soiled.
A Chicago husband disappeared
last summer, and his wife shortly
after obtained a divorce. Now he
has reappeared, saying that "he
only went away to teach his wife
a lesson," and as the pair have
been remarried, it is fair to assume
that she has learned it.
The largrest county in Texas
ech itas asahst,
AGRICULTURAL.
We publish the annexed account
of the trial of a steam-plow, which
took place at the grounds of the
Mechaiiics' and Agricultural Asso
ciation. of New Orleans. Mr. Max
Eyth, late engineer in chief to the
Pa^ha of Egypt, exhibited the
machine, manouvring it after the
manner of the Egyptians, and
clearly proved the utter inability
of a freedman to turn up mud at
all, in comparison with this won
derful invention. The planters
present at the trial are said to be
"enraptured" with the steam-plow;
so that we may expect to hear of
a speedy decline in the price of
mules and the wages of freedmen,
in that section. Says the Crescent:
"The plow moves between two
engines with such ease and celerity,
guided by one man, that the work
of forty ordinary plows, with all
the necessary hands and accom
paniments, can be performed in
twenty-four hours, and every
moment of favorable weather may
be improved with such prompti
tude and certainty that no time is
lost in preparing the soil for what
ever crop may be designed- The
advantages of this wonderful im
provement need only to be seen to
satisfy all who are interested in
agriculture, of its adaptability to
our soil, and the economy and
practicability of its working on a
large or small scale. It is such an
enterprise as should interest every
planter and merchant in the State,
and promises yet to revolutionize
the system ofSouthern agriculture.
We can ill afford to let planters of
Egypt, who have tested this
machine, surpass us in enterprise
in the culture of our great staple,
and with the advantages of the
steam-plow, we may vie with the
world in wealth and productive
ness.
Sheep vs. Other Stock.
The following briefly enumerates
some of the advantages of keeping
sheep
Tney make the quickest returns
for the investment in them, being
ready to eat at three or four
months old, and yielding: a valu
able fleece at one year old, And
perhaps a lamb also.
Their subsistence is cheaper
than that of any other domestic
animals-grass and stock fodder
being all they will require at any
season.
They supp!y the family at all
seasons, with the most wholesome
and the most delicious meat, of
the most convenient size for family
use.
They present valuable products
in two forms, their wool and their
flesh,both of which are adapted to
home consumption, and for sale,
and both of which are adapted to
either domestic or distant markets.
The transportation of them to
market alive is cheaper than of
gy other live stock (not blooded)
of the same value, and the same is
true also of their wool compared
with other and similar agricultural
products.
Wool may be more easily and
safely., kept in expectation of a,
better market, than any other and
similar product, as it is less liable
to fire, insects, rats or rotting.
An investment in them is self
enlarging. and rapidly so, by their
annual increase, while their wool
pays much in the way of interest
at the same time, which is not
true of many, if of any similar
investments.
Sheep, here, have but one
enemy, the dog, and his b>rother,
ignoramus legislator ; who, not
having the capacity to compre
hed the w~hole subject, and to
explain it to his constituents, al
lows the dog to run at large unres
trained by law, and thereby this
inestimable value is almost entire
ly lost to the State.-Mrary7ld
amer.
Fattening Swine.
Many farmers do not commence
fattening their swine till October.
This is not the best system of hog
management. Hogs that are to be
slaughtered about the first of
December or January, should be
well fed, with scrupulous regulari
ty, three times every day. It is
not best to "stuff" fattening swine
in the former part of the season,
unless they have attained a desir
able size. Hogs should be kept
growing rather than to allow
them to almost subsist on grass,
till within two months of the time
when they are to be slaughtered,
and then crowd them by heavy
feeding. The quantity of feed
should be increased from week to
week, as the animals will take a
larger amount. Furthermore, it
is infinitely better to have all kinds
of grain ground quite fine before
it is fed out. It is also an excel
lent practice, when feeding fatten
ing swine, to provide three vessels,
each one to contain about as much
as is fed at one time. Then let
the meal be softened by soaking
in water about twenty-four hours
before it is fed. A still better
practice is to scald meal of all
kinds previous to feeding it.-New
York Times.
TheBaltimoroTranscript, speak
ing of the great increase of the
trade in wool in the United States,
says :-"The Southern States are
better adapted to sheep husban
dry than any portion of the world,
and we would specially commend
this branch of enterprise to the
attention of their people. The
idea entertained by some South
erners that the South is too warm
for sheep to flourish, is entirely
without foundation. Any part of
Maryland or Virginia is admirably
adapted for sheep raising. The
whole South has a most decided
advantage over other parts of the
United States for the production
of wool, in soil, climate and abun
dance and variety of' grasses. The
winter feeding of the most favored
part of the North averages one
hundred and fifty days, and costs,
under the miost favorable circum
stances, 271 cents per pound ;
while in the Southern States it is
not necessa;'y to feed in winter,
except under the most extraordi
nary circumstances. The South
ern States, including those west
of the Mississippi river, embrace
ran area of four hundred and fifty
thousand square miles, or two
hundred and eighty-eight million
square acres. The attention to
sheep husbandry need not impair
the cultivation of the great South
ern Staples.
RAIsE PRoVISIoNS.-The New
Orleans Picayune, in remarking
upon the policy of devoting less
attention to the cultivation of cot
ton and more to the raising of
provisions, says :
In the name of common sense
let our planting people grow their
own corn, and make their own
bread and meat. Do this first.
and give up the exploded idea.that
"cotton is king." And when home
wants are supplied then grow
cotton, and the country will grow.
rcher.
If the whole South could be in
duced to adopt a self-sustaining
policy by making their own food
and raiment, and give the balance
of their time to.the culture of cot
ton, no people on earth would be
as rich as we would soon be,
A season is past, and another
rop of cotton has been added to
the records ; but as far as its visi
ble effects canbesdenonthe wealth
f the Southern country, it had as
ell not have been made. A mil
ion bales have been counted,
Worth a hundred millions of dol
ollars. But it has gone-gone
limmering to help other people,
ad to enrich other pockets. There
s nothing left of it. No more
oney is in the South than before
it wa gathered. Some may ask,
where is it ? We point them to
the huge heaps of freight and
produce daily landed at the wharf,
and which, the moment they
touch the shore, are whoeled away
to the railroads and coast stca i,
ers to feed the farming people. - :
CRoPS AND MANURE-The South
ern Cultivator, now published at
Athens, and the best Southern
agricultural journal, adviseS its
readers not to attempt to Cultivatt
land unless it is well mannere<f
This is sensible adviceran<-the
editor goes on to show facts and
figures, which we condense.into a
few lines. It will cost-as much to
plant and cultivate ten acres :f
poor land as it does the saule ez
tent of good soil, and the sane
hands that manage the poor soilS
can do as much on the better lands
The Cultivator advises its rca,
ders to invest a few dollars in fer:
tilizers, and thereby make two o
three hundred per cent. on the in
vestment. A judicious application
of these manures would bring in a
good return and- show a pTeasin
balance on the credit side of .The:
ledger when the annual balaea
is made up.
KISsING THE WRONG M& .r-The
Petersburg (Va.) Express tels Yfe
following good story:
A modest young gentlemin r
the country, while passing l6ig
one of our streets yesterday, m
two young ladies-to him ytrfe
strangers. le evidently resen1
bled some handsome and ftoirite F
cousin of theirs, for as so'n;
they laid eyes on him, the gave
him a. very cordial greetingie
pressed themselves as yery glacd'
see "cousin John," and -extending
two pairs of very tempting *ips in
token of their sincerity It . wa
not until the kisses had bees
given and received that the fa|l
ones discovered their 2iistake.
though the gentleman in qnestio,
saw it from the beginning. Yet
was he so overcome hy- hia une
pected fortune .that it was -oeseh
time ere he recovered his.presese
of mind, It's an ill wind- that'
blows good to 'nobody dhat
"coasin John" misssed iii this iA
stance somebody else got.
[ AuguseX Phee.
The Memphis Avalanche rioticas
the case of Col. Harb'ut, formed4y
of the Confederate army, who is
now dying in the City Hlospital, irn
Memphis, from the effects of hav'
ing s-wamn the Mississippi in esea
ping from a band of jayhawkers.
After the wvar, he returned to. h
home, at Waverly, Missodlri, con-'
trarv to the advide of his friends,
as he had been outlawed. by ihe
radical Legislature. He reached
the spot to fiidx his dwelling a
smouldering ruin, it having -beenk
set on fire, and his children bav,.
ing been burned alive in it. While
he was gathering their remains,
he was set upon by a par'ty of over
100 men, from whom he barely es~
caped in the manner stated,
I3M3IGRA TION TO TUE WEsT.-lt isstated1
that thc comning spring will witness a
larg<r emigration from Northern Europe
to this country than has ever before 0ev
curred. in wiew of this fact the legisla
ture of several of the Northwesters
States are discussing propositions' look.
ing to some action that shall 'secure to
them some of the benenits of this immiw
gration. In the Indiana Legislatore a
bill has been intrcduced for the appoint.
ment of a board of emigration, consisting
of five members, for this purpose. In the
Minnesota Legislature it .is proposed to
print a hundred thousand copies asf
pamphlet in the English, German and
Scandinavian languages, setting forjji the
inducements which that State pressaitS
to such emigrants. The Madison (W1fs
consin) Journal urges similar actt by
the Legislature of that State.
Co-rroN AND Coni.-The New Qrleans
Crescent says:.
Cotton is low. Its net return to the
planter, after paying tax, freight,ecommis
sion and expenses, is not more than it
was before the war, and the expenses of
raising it, yet to-come out, is terrible.
Is not this enough to satisfy us that it
is to our interest to raise more con .an4
less cotton ?
The Petersburg (Va.) Leader created
an excitement the other day by announc.
ing its intention of publishing the names
of ll laies of fifty vnrs and unwards.